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381 Etymology dictionary, p. garden (n.).3
… reflective globe (about a foot and a half across) placed on a pedestal, used as a garden ornament," is from 1842.
382 Etymology dictionary, p. global (adj.).2
… ," from globe + -al (1). Meaning "worldwide, universal, pertaining to the whole globe of the earth" is from 1892, from a sense development in French. Global village first …
383 Etymology dictionary, p. globate (adj.).2
"spherical," 1847, from Latin globatus, from globus "round mass, sphere, ball" (see globe (n.)). Globated in the same sense is attested from 1727.
384 Etymology dictionary, p. globe (n.).1
globe (n.)
385 Etymology dictionary, p. globe (n.).2
… French globe (14c.) and directly from Latin globus "round mass, sphere, ball" (also, of men, "a throng, crowd, body, mass"), which is related to gleba "clod, lump of soil" (see …
386 Etymology dictionary, p. globe (n.).3
… . Meaning "globe-shaped glass vessel" is from 1660s. "A globe is often solid, a sphere often hollow. The secondary senses of globe are physical; those of sphere are …
387 Etymology dictionary, p. globe-trotter (n.).1
globe-trotter (n.)
388 Etymology dictionary, p. globe-trotter (n.).2
… , from globe + agent noun from trot (v.). As a verb, globetrot is recorded from 1883. Related: Globe-trotting .
389 Etymology dictionary, p. globose (adj.).2
"spherical, like or resembling a sphere," early 15c., "large and formless," from Latin globosus "round as a ball," from globus "round mass, sphere, ball" (see globe (n.)). Related: Globosity .
390 Etymology dictionary, p. globule (n.).2
"small, spherical body; little globe or sphere," 1660s, from French globule, from Latin globulus "a little ball," diminutive of globus "round mass, sphere, ball" (see globe (n.)).
391 Etymology dictionary, p. globular (adj.).2
… " (see globe (n.)). Earlier in same sense was globical (1610s). Astronomical globular cluster attested from 1806.
392 Etymology dictionary, p. Gondwana.3
… the globe about 180 million years ago, this was called Gondwanaland (1896), from German, where it was coined by German geologist Eduard Suess in 1885.
393 Etymology dictionary, p. kugel (n.).2
kind of pudding in Jewish cookery, 1846, from Yiddish kugel, literally "ball," from Middle High German kugel "ball, globe" (see cog (n.)).
394 Etymology dictionary, p. lower (adj.).2
… the globe than all of them).
395 Etymology dictionary, p. ocean (n.).2
… the globe," from Old French occean "ocean" (12c., Modern French océan ), from Latin oceanus, from Greek ōkeanos, the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth …
396 Etymology dictionary, p. orb (n.).2
… ., "sphere, globe, something spherical or circular, orbit of a heavenly body," from Old French orbe "orb, globe" (13c.) and directly from Latin orbem (nominative orbis …
397 Etymology dictionary, p. outside (n.).2
… the globe it tends to mean "the world of civilization and settlement" (1827); in prison (and army) slang, "the world outside prison (or the army)," by 1903.
398 Etymology dictionary, p. Pulitzer (n.).2
… York Globe, who established the awards in 1917 through an endowment to Columbia University.
399 Etymology dictionary, p. shake (n.).3
… Weekly Globe, March 29, 1843, which identifies it as "a homely adage").
400 Etymology dictionary, p. sphere (n.).2
… sphaera "globe, ball, celestial sphere" (Medieval Latin spera ), from Greek sphaira "globe, ball, playing ball, terrestrial globe," a word of unknown origin.